Brunnschweiler, Christa N.; Jennings, Colin; MacKenzie, … - Institutt for Samfunnsøkonomi, Norges … - 2012
We challenge the conventional view that strikes are caused by asymmetric information regarding firm profitability. We build an expressive model of strikes where punishing unfairness provides the expressive benefit of voting for a strike. The model predicts that larger union size increases wage...